Fibre installation and fiber providers

[Aaron Vegh]

> Find your provider first - let them worry about the details.

But by all means, please let us know what you discover. I'm very
curious to know how fiber works!

Cheers,
Aaron.


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:35:52 -0500 (EST), John Sellens
<jsellens-Iv5KO+h6AVB+Y12zHexnB0EOCMrvLtNR at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:40:39 -0500
> | From: Teddy Mills <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org>
> |
> | I want to look at some fiber internet. (If we have to spent 5k on the
> | installation, thats fine.)
> 
> I can't recommend any installers, but
> - Fibre normally comes in multiple strands in a jacket i.e. you almost
>   never run just a single pair
> - It usually doesn't need to be run inside conduit
> - As was mentioned, talk to your landlord first
> 
> | Once the fiber in the building is complete,  I would like to contact
> | some providers of fiber internet.
> | Again, know of any in the downtown Toronto area?
> 
> Hmmm - seems to me you're going about it in the wrong order.  Find
> a bandwidth provider, and get them to deliver to a demarc in your
> premises.  You'd hate to find that you installed, say, single mode
> fibre, and the provider wants multi mode, or needs to support
> different wavelengths, has a better/cheaper preferred installer
> than you found, or even that your preferred provider can provide
> reliable fast point to point wireless cheaper than fibre.
> 
> Find your provider first - let them worry about the details.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> John
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